The Religious frameworks of Faith
The word religion comes from the latin word ligare: to join, or link, classically understood to mean the linking of human and divine. Yoga, similarly, means union with the divine or higher Self.
All Religion contains unique framework to depict faith through scripture and spoken word. Both Religion and scripture are forms of divine energy translated through language to interpret aspects of God and Divinity. Religion is as close as we can get to understanding the divine principles, yet Divinity/God/One knows no language; the essence is too big, too powerful, and too great. All that can be explained about the totality of the One (God) is Om. Om is the vibration of all energy from which all prana (life-force) is generated. We were made in God’s image, and through God’s energy, key figures have carried on the peak principles of divinity through human form like Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, Mother Teresa, Apostles, martyrs, saints, and any Prophets devoted to a path of exposing the light within us all; we all carry the same source of energy within us and this is in fact God. God’s energy encompasses all that exists, including the seven reckless sins, or the seven headed dragon depicted in Revelations, which provide us with impactful lessons: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride are their names. Religion is the word that leads the human form to seek, adore, and find union with abundant energy of God through moral action through lessons of the seven deadly sins.
Religion is a doctrine, or framework, to spread and promote the belief in God, but no Religion is God, it is a pathway to find God. The goal of Religion is to create faith, or devotion, to God, but Religion is not faith. Faith is the ability to use freewill to believe, trust, and worship God however you see fit in your unique body, form, circumstance, and setting. God is the energy within all, the light, the Alpha and the Omega, and it cannot be created nor destroy. Scripture passes the word of Religion through form, but not all physical forms follow Religion. The forms that do not follow religion are Dinosaurs (65 million B.C.), and all animal aspects including bugs and plants due to the fact that their senses have yet to interpret written or verbal word. Religion is a written account, which accounts for the human body undergoing the transfer of energy to find union with the One; this is Jesus’ journey to become the Son of God. Jesus reached the peak of God’s energy through devotion to the Divine, and this event marks beginning of the calendar time at 0 A.D. Religion also includes the written account of miracles, purity, and revelations according to those who were divinely inspired; Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, deities, etc.
Religion is an interpretation of how to live, but it is not the only way to live. Jesus was not Catholic, or Lutheran, or Baptist; he was Jewish. Many modern religions were molded after his journey without his consent after he died.
In the Islamic faith, Muhammad founded the Islam framework, and so it is up to us to accept and believe the word that has been passed along since any prophet’s death. Religions reflect the life and lessons of their prophets, but they are only interpretations of these paths. The truth is the path of the prophet itself, and this truth can only be known to the individual who walked the path to find union with God; the religion does its best to define events and gospels according to what is believed to be the truth.
Faith is enhanced through optimum energy use on three levels: physical, mental, and spiritual. The five human senses aid in discovering optimum faith; taste, smell, and sight teaches us which herbs to use, foods to eat, and the herbal medicines best suited for the human body. Touch can transport the form through terrain to protect our unique aspect of God’s energy. Hearing and sight can guide our form away from danger to do God’s will. Discovering optimum mental health requires the form to withdraw from the five-senses in the physical realm and concentrate inwards on how we may best serve God in our daily life. Every physical form on Earth is a conscious adaptation of God’s energy over time as a result of the mental form (how we think determines our reality). By conditioning the mind through non-attachment (Yoga), we create an optimum mental habits to guide our physical form into the spiritual energy that already resides within us.
If the mind directs the body, then it is the spirit that guides the mind. The spirit is known to the those who know it not, and unknown to those who know it; the spirit cannot be fully understood, and neither can the mind comprehend it as this is Religion’s greatest predicament. How do you transfer the word of God, if no words can do God justice? Alan Watts explained how a knife cannot cut it self, fire cannot burn itself, light cannot illuminate itself; the Godhead is never an object of it’s own knowledge. Only through lessons on the spiritual plane (dreams, visions, and/or mental clarity) can we begin to understand the core of everything we are; we are all energy and all energy is everywhere. God is everywhere and in everything; God is not separate from us and it is up to us to discover our divinity.
If we can evolve mentally to direct the mind towards God, then faith becomes our physically reality, and ultimately we realize we are a spiritual vessel carrying God’s light. It is no coincidence that the greatest physical and/or mental pain is often the spiritual Self attempting to awaken the mind and body. Ram Dass was one of the Gurus who was quoted saying, “My suffering brings me closer to God.” Life is change, life is suffering, and all life ends with traumatic change caused by a final transfer of energy; union with the source of God. This traumatic change can be seen through entropy, or the non-reversible change of a form’s state; once you fry and egg, the egg cannot go back to its liquid state. Once the body dies, it cannot go back to it’s energetic state. No form can stop itself from evolving, shifting, growing, or even passing on. The purpose of all living forms are to sense and adapt through our surroundings to cultivate the light of God.
Every form will change, die, or alter it’s physical being through the transfer of energy until our time on Earth is complete. The end of every life becomes a new beginning; as soon as our bodily form is gone, our energy finds a new form, place, or space to reside in based on the result of our choices during our life time. At death, our energy can find Spiritual union with God, and unite with the divine Mother and Father.
In summary: Religion is a framework to help us cultivate faith. Scripture is the written or spoke word that religion uses to promote faith. If church leaders of a religion contradict their scripture, how can we trust their word? Answer: our faith comes within; not a ritual or church. We can use religion to help grow our faith, but we are responsible for our soul once we pass on. Religion does not get us to God: faith does. Faith has no religion.